truck from their home in tambon Rueso to buy food from a market in Gala town the were stopped at a mobile checkpoint and searched by about 10 men dressed as soldiers. The men forced the two out of the vehicle at qunpoint and struck their heads and faces with rifle butts. THE assailants then put them on the back toward Raman district of Yala. On the way, Mrs jintana was removed from the pickup and left by the roadside, where she was found by the police. THE police later found the husband lyinq unconscious in bushes about 50 metres from a rubber wood processinq factory. The bandits fled with the pickup truck and 100,000 baht cash.